Over the weekend, Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah did something far worse than blurt the wrong words under stress in response to a gutting loss: He responded to a political assassination and ongoing manhunt in the United States of America with intentionally inflammatory and wrong information, and a joke.

Vance Boelter targeted Democrats, leaning politically right, with no Marxist ties as suggested by the evidence.

Democratic lawmaker Melissa Hortman and her husband were killed in their home in what officials are calling a politically-motivated assassination. Republican Senator Mike Lee is facing fierce criticism after baselessly blaming the assassination on the far left.